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Flare of Duplication

· Instant · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

748

Decks Running

345

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Flare of Duplication

Instant

You may sacrifice a nontoken red creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Olivier Bernard

Final zone distribution

157 instances

5.7%

Library

5.1%

Battlefield

31.2%

Graveyard

12.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 39 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 21 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 17 decks
4 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 16 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 12 decks
6 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 12 decks
7 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 12 decks
8 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 10 decks
9 Thrasios, Triton Hero 10 decks
10 Kratos, God of War 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

749 brought · 315 players

Brought to game

749

Ever drawn

138

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=44) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=436).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=59).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.6pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=52

17%

13%

54%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 12% (4 / 52 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.